Re: [M100] M200 vs M100/2 RS232 Differences

2023-06-11 Thread Charlie Hoey
Thanks all! Being able to poll the status of CTS in BASIC was the missing link. I've been doing a similar mini BASIC "printer driver" that would just do garbage loops to delay enough to usually print. I'm going to read the ports as described above and see if I can get things humming on the M100.

[M100] M102 bag trade for m100?

2023-06-03 Thread Charlie Hoey
I picked up an M100 in a 102 bag at a flea a while back, and was wondering if anybody had a 100 bag they would like to trade for a 102 bag? Not perfect but not rips. Forgive me if there's a big value difference here I'm not aware of, figured someone might be in the same boat. -C

Re: [M100] Rex# Crash on an M102

2023-05-28 Thread Charlie Hoey
t's a > common weak point. No weak/compressed pins, no oxidization, rex# fully > seated etc. > > Otherwise what Steve said, run the install/update tool to reflash the Rex#. > > -- > bkw > On 5/25/23 21:27, Charlie Hoey wrote: > > Hello there! > > > > I had my firs

[M100] Rex# Crash on an M102

2023-05-25 Thread Charlie Hoey
Hello there! I had my first crash on a Rex# that I can't get myself out of, curious if anybody has any tips. I was in the process of creating a clean bank for a new project, and it failed somewhere near the end. I RESET and then ran `CALL 63012` to reload REX, but now whenever I start REXMGR, it

[M100] T200 printing issues + memory test

2023-03-07 Thread Charlie Hoey
Hey friends, I nabbed a lovely clean T200 recently, and after writing a few letters on it, I'm trying to print over parallel to an LPT-equipt typewriter I know to work. Using the t200 built in page formatter (shift-print) in a doc, it has the following behavior: No errors, and LPT typewriter

Re: [M100] Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2

2022-11-14 Thread Charlie Hoey
Not sure if the TPDD2 model has dip switches, but perhaps they're in the wrong setting? On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 8:34 AM Josh Malone wrote: > Are you using the correct bootstrap? (Pdd 1 vs pdd 2) > > I made a video a few years ago showing various failure modes if that helps. > >

[M100] Keycap compatibility between models

2022-10-19 Thread Charlie Hoey
Does anybody know off hand which, if any, keycaps are swappable between model T models? I've got a caps lock key from a 100 that looks _awfully_ close, but doesn't quite snap into my 200. Wondering if my keyswitch is gummed up/damaged, or if they're just not compatible.

[M100] my PDDuino SD card floppy setup

2022-10-07 Thread Charlie Hoey
Hey everybody. Just wanted to quickly share my build of BKW's fantastic PDDuino TPDD emulator project - https://github.com/bkw777/PDDuino. This is a little module that plugs into the 25 pin serial on a Model T and lets you use an SD card as a TPDD floppy drive. TS-DOS seems to play nicely with

Re: [M100] assembly language first steps

2022-09-26 Thread Charlie Hoey
I have been dipping my toes in as well, mostly writing/assembling on the hardware itself with BYTEIT, and more recently CMZASM (both available here: http://www.club100.org/library/libprg.html). Both work by writing your asm code in the TEXT app and then compiling separately. BYTEIT assembles out

[M100] Spare T200 caps-lock keycap

2022-09-22 Thread Charlie Hoey
Got a T200 that's in good shape aside from the caps-lock key cap being cracked. Anybody have a spare they would be willing to sell? Just need the cap, switch is okay

Re: [M100] what's the Right Way to code and assemble on model-t hardware

2022-09-08 Thread Charlie Hoey
Thanks for that Ken! Nice to have confirmation on taht. And yeah I found BYTEIT over here on the programming section of the club100 archives: http://www.club100.org/library/libprg.html Just in case it's useful to anybody, so far I've ported over an LFSR pseudo-random number generator over from

Re: [M100] Warning: Not a(n) M100 but a PC-2 question.

2022-09-06 Thread Charlie Hoey
Thanks a lot for that, Jeff. I believe I actually used a switching 5v supply, which turned out to be enough. Would it be a safe-ish strategy to aim for a regulated/switching power supply that hits the lower end of the battery pack's voltage? I had imagined it would just draw as much current as it

[M100] what's the Right Way to code and assemble on model-t hardware

2022-09-06 Thread Charlie Hoey
Hey all, looks like the search might be broken in the archives, so apologies if there's a whole thread on this I missed. So I've done some 6502 development, and I have recently been enjoying learning some basics of 8080 assembly on my 100 and 102 using BYTEIT. Very informative to learn a second

Re: [M100] Warning: Not a(n) M100 but a PC-2 question.

2022-09-05 Thread Charlie Hoey
Was perusing the archive and noticed this thread, I can confirm the PC-2 plotter runs happily without a battery if you upgrade the power supply. Just get newer one with the same polarity and voltage, but higher amperage. I think mine was 2A, but *definitely* double check that polarity! Also,